Intern
Human Rights Watch
Total years of experience :7 years, 7 Months
Conducted research and analysis for Lebanon and Syria reports on violence against domestic workers,
women’s rights and personal status laws, free speech, chemical weapons and Lebanon’s waste crisis
•Conducted field research on corporal punishment of Syrian refugees in Bekaa public schools;
participated in government advocacy for report on health risks of waste crisis
•Edited reports, wrote time-sensitive research memoranda; compiled daily media digests; summarized
and translated legal documents
Facilitated conversations with people of immigrant and refugee-status learning English
Treasurer, Sarah Lawrence College Coalition on Refugees and Forced Migration
Spearheaded public campaign to end gender-based, racial, and Islamophobic incidents on campus
Communicated directly with donors and high-profile officials such as diplomats
•Supervised NGO representatives, volunteers; conducted administrative tasks such as donation data entry
•Fundraised over $10, 000 for the We Care About Syria Campaign
Promoted from volunteer to head coach within the first three years
•Organized activities; communicated directly with caregivers, coworkers, and management
Organized ESL classes & curricula for over 30 Palestinian youth (ages 3-15) in urban refugee settlements
•Centered the concepts of self-empowerment among students, provided counseling, support for youth
Perceptions of Socioemotional Development and Caregiving of Infants in Lebanon, Alexandra Chen, PI
•Conducted interviews in Arabic with mothers of refugee or marginal status on their perceptions of
child development and parental roles; translated and transcribed said interviews
•Collected and organized data for development of global Early Childhood Development index (CREDI
Decline of Nation-States After the Arab Spring: The Rise of Communitocracy, Dr. Imad Salamey, PI
•Edited academic chapters on post-Arab Spring political structures for a book published in 2016
•Conducted systematic literature review on gender politics and dynamics in Syrian war
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